This week's designs are a complete departure from the metro card, the initial object that I had thrown out. I had been thinking of the subway as an egalitarian space to which the metro card grants temporary membership. This "turnstile" stool design is my first attempt at an egalitarian, public furniture intervention.
This is the stool in progress. I designed it like a kit of parts, so that it could be easily assembled by anyone.
Assembled in the studio.
Detail
Sam is demonstrating that the stool turns when only one person sits on it.
Sam and Rona have to work together to sit/lean on the stool.
Allan and I decided that the stool would be more inviting to sit on if the bar had a contour.
This is my in-progress 3d model. If I decide to continue in this direction, the finished form might look like this.
These were the first deliverables that I produced for my design intensive studio. The project was to redesign the first thing that you threw away after class, which was my spent metro card. These conceptual models celebrate the ease of use of the metro card, and add some social commentary. I particularly like the 3rd concept.
This last model is "Metro RX," a pill that you would take every day to ride the subway. Inspired by my bio-e buddies, I wanted to create a metro card that would use MR technology to allow for people to ride. Some of my other ideas were, "Brush to Bus," a camera that could sense if the passenger had brushed their teeth that day. Riders with good hygiene would be permitted to use the bus.
